Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
Some Unicode characters are fullwidth and use double the normal width. ANSI escape codes are stripped and doesn't affect the width.
import stringWidth = require('string-width'); stringWidth('a'); //=> 1 stringWidth('古'); //=> 2 stringWidth('\u001B[1m古\u001B[22m'); //=> 2
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Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
Some Unicode characters are fullwidth and use double the normal width. ANSI escape codes are stripped and doesn't affect the width.
import stringWidth = require('string-width'); stringWidth('a'); //=> 1 stringWidth('古'); //=> 2 stringWidth('\u001B[1m古\u001B[22m'); //=> 2